Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh

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Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh
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Directed by Chandan Arora
Written byPankaj Saraswat
Ashok Khanna
Story by Rajpal Yadav
Gunjan Joshi
Produced by Ronnie Screwvala
Starring Rajpal Yadav
Rituparna Sengupta
Varun Badola
Kay Kay Menon
Narrated by Naseeruddin Shah
CinematographyJahangir Choudhary
Edited byDharmendra Sharma
Music byRocky Khanna
Mohit Chauhan
Production
companies
Release date
  • 7 October 2005 (2005-10-07)
Running time
129 mins
Language Hindi
Budget 25 million [1]
Box office₹33.7 million [1]

Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh (English: Me, My Wife and Him) [lower-alpha 1] is a 2005 Indian romantic comedy film, directed by Chandan Arora, starring Rajpal Yadav, Rituparna Sengupta and Kay Kay Menon as the leading actors. The film was released on 7 October 2005. It is inspired from Malayalam film Vadakkunokkiyantram .

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Plot

The movie is about a qualified but short, middle-aged man named Mithilesh (Rajpal Yadav) and his insecurities about his height & personality, when he marries Veena (Rituparna Sengupta). He had never imagined such a pretty and well grounded woman would marry a commoner. As his married life progresses with his devoted wife, his insecurities continue to grow. He becomes jealous of his friend Saleem, (Varun Badola), Veena's childhood friend Akash, (Kay Kay Menon) and others who he claims are infatuated. Slowly, he suspects a change in Veena's behavior and starts believing she wants a divorce. Being a loving husband he confesses his fear to Veena. But the hidden truth, disclosed at the very end, ultimately brings the couple closer.

Cast

Soundtrack

TrackTitleArtist(s)ComposerLyricistLength
1"Doob Jaana Re" Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam Rocky KhannaRocky Khanna06:24
2"Paintra" Mohit Chauhan Mohit ChauhanRocky Khanna05:40
3"Guncha - Unplugged"Mohit Chauhan & ChorusMohit ChauhanMohit Chauhan05:44
4"Ye Aankh Sharabi Jaadu" Kunal Ganjawala Nayab RajaZahir Anwar03:02
5"Guncha"Mohit ChauhanMohit ChauhanMohit Chauhan05:34
6"Chand Varga"Naeem Shamim Ajmeri, Rajendra ShivRocky KhannaRocky Khanna05:07
7"Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai" Kavita Krishnamurthy Nayab RajaVivek Kumar04:08
8"Theme - Instrumental"InstrumentalMohit Chauhan05:52

Critical reception

Indrani Roy Mitra of Rediff.com wrote "A taut, yet down-to-earth, script keeps the film's interest alive till the last minute. Like Madhuri Dixit, here, too, Chandan's deft use of popular Hindi film songs to accentuate the mood of certain sequences deserves special mention." [2] Conversely Kaveree Bamzai of India Today called the script "stodgy" and criticised the casting of Yadav by writing, "Rajpal Yadav is a fine comic but it doesn't necessarily make him a versatile actor. So instead of the usual gags, the ones which have audiences in splits, he tries to do a Dilip Kumar. Which means he says his lines extremely slowly as if he is addressing a confederacy of dunces, and tortures himself-and the audience-with all manner of imaginary woes." [3] Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film 1 out of 5, writing, "On the whole, MAIN MERI PATNI AUR WOH is a decent entertainer that could've been an engaging fare had it not been for a mediocre second half. It might appeal to a handful of critics [in awe of such cinema], but definitely not the common man who decides the fate of a film." [4]

Footnotes

  1. The name of the film is a play of words on the 1978 film Pati Patni Aur Woh. The Hindi pronoun Woh in both films refers to a 3rd person, of whom the hero is suspicious.

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References

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